I need a rant!!! Feel free to ignore me...
I resigned from my job at the tax office in December. My SMP stopped and although I could have remained employed for the final 3 months just unpaid and continued to accrue holiday pay, I decided that seeing as I wasn't intending to go back I should give my notice so they knew where they stood. Once I'd resigned I asked to be paid my outstanding annual leave. The resignation, etc wasn't done in time for pay in December, so I thought oh well, I'll get it at the end of January. That came and went as apparently my manager had filled in the form saying I wasn't owed any annual leave. I was annoyed as I'd already waited for it and could really have done with it, but contacted my manager to ask him to sort it out so I'd be paid it at the end of February. He said he had sorted it so I rang HR to check and apparently he had done it incorrectly again. I contacted my manager again 2 weeks ago asking for it to be sorted in time to be paid in February and he said he had sorted it. I couldn't ring HR last week to check as my phone had to be sent in to be repaired so I didn't have the number. When I got my phone back I rang HR and they told me that yet again it had been done incorrectly and now the cut off for payroll for february had been missed. They told me that if he sorted it before tomorrow (wednesday) then there might be a small chance that it could be sorted if they begged payrol to sort it. I faffed about all day yesterday trying to get hold of him but I couldn't and no one would help me. Today, he rang me and told me he would ring HR to get it sorted out. I rang him to check if he had done it and he cut me off so I text him. He said he sat on hold to them and gave up so would try later. I text him again to ask what they had said and he has just text me to say that he will have to ring them tomorrow now, as he didn't know they shut at 5!!! So now I pretty much have no chance of getting it this month. I'm so annoyed, I really need the money, especially having no income myself now. I may as well have stayed employed and accrued the extra holiday. I'm furious.
Sorry just needed to get that off my chest!!